No, this particular footwear-involved spree involved the robbery of local fast-food restaurants and electronics stores, the L.A. County District Attorney's office alleges.

Sometimes the suspect carried a gun, prosecutors said:

The woman, identified as 22-year-old Chelle Michelle Swan, was hit yesterday with a case that includes 18 counts of robbery, the D.A.'s office says.

According to a statement from prosecutors:

Prosecutors said the crimes occurred between February 7 and May 29 and on six occasions multiple robberies happened on the same day. The suspect was armed with a gun in some of the robberies and was called the "Pink Shoe Bandit" by police because of her light-colored footwear.

According to L.A. County Sheriff's Department inmate data, Swan was arrested Monday by LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division. She has multiple booking files in the Sheriff's system. For example, she was arrested in March by Culver City police for reasons unknown. In that case, Swan was quickly released.

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Dennis Romero is an L.A. Weekly staff writer. He formerly worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Los Angeles Times, where he participated in Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the L.A. riots. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone online, the Guardian and, as a young stringer, the New York Times.